Fladgate is an international multi-practice firm with deep expertise across a broad range of legal specialisms. This breadth of expertise enables us to provide clients with practical, ‘joined-up’ solutions in the following areas:

We have the expertise to provide our clients with a wide range of commercially focused legal services and have in-depth experience of a number of industry sectors. Our partner-led teams cover the following areas:

We offer our clients with international business a technically expert, efficient service, characterised by commercial and cultural awareness and delivered by experienced, multilingual, multi-qualified teams of lawyers. Our partner-led teams cover the following areas:

Finance

Our quality specialist expertise includes acquisition and project finance, the giving and taking of security over all forms of tangible and intangible property syndicated loans, participations, securitisations and other structured products such as CDOs.

We have extensive experience in the specialised sphere of asset-based lending. The nature of such transactions requires careful attention to underlying security structures.

By drawing upon our understanding of the needs of both borrowers and lenders, we are able to suggest innovative financing structures and anticipate issues in order to identify and solve problems early on.

Our experience in sectors such as real estate funds, hotels, healthcare, offices, retail and student accommodation ensures that we are able to deliver smart, commercial and efficient solutions for our clients.

We aim to provide clients with practical and commercial legal advice which fits their business goals, drawing on a high level of partner involvement.

Finance team

Advising the purchasers of two tranches of bank debt from Credit Suisse to the value of €89m and SFr227m. This complex transaction involved German properties, English banking law, companies registered in Gibraltar (with Luxembourg subsidiaries) and a multi-jurisdictional banking institution.

Advising a UK based syndicate on the refinancing of a multi-million facility owed to a US hedge fund by a UK based venture capital fund.

Acting for Weston Homes Plc as borrower on a rearrangement of their group financing, involving a reorganisation of their existing £105m facility plus a new £3.5m bilateral facility to enable the company to complete an important strategic acquisition.

Advising on the financing and banking aspects of the acquisitions of four commercial property portfolios in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Holland with an aggregate value of €2bn for two substantial offshore family trusts via Luxembourg and Gibraltar-based structures. The acquisition was backed by Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse.

Advising Tadhamon Capital, administrators of a Yemini Shari’ah compliant bank, in respect of its first project in the UK involving a structure that complied with the requirements of a Shari’ah fund as well as the complex negotiations in relation to the property asset acquired.

Advising on a corporate reorganisation and £482m securitisation of a portfolio of 22 properties for the Fordgate Group. The CMBS notes were listed on the Irish Stock Exchange.

Acting on the reorganisation of global facilities for Arazim Investments Limited, involving real estate security in three different jurisdictions and borrowing entities in six jurisdictions, with the total facility being in excess of £100m. We advised on all aspects of the security documentation and facility agreements, involving at least 100 separate documents.

Advising on a £230m refinancing facility for a group of companies held by Camden Market Holding Corp in connection with the Japanese investment bank, Nomura International. The transaction was particularly complicated as the security comprised the borrower’s underlying large property holdings. These included the major tourist attraction and famous Stables Market site in Camden together with a vast development site, parts of which are currently trading as another market, “Camden Lock Market”, on the banks of the Regent Canal.

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